Sentinel-3A OLCI Level-3M Global Mapped Earth-observation Reduced Resolution (ERR) Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient for Downwelling Irradiance (KD) Data, version R2022.0

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The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) is the successor to ENVISAT's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) having additional spectral channels, different camera arrangements and simplified on-board processing. The OLCI is a push-broom instrument with five camera modules sharing the field of view. The field of view of the five cameras is arranged in a fan-shaped configuration in the vertical plane, perpendicular to the platform velocity. Each camera has an individual field of view of 14.2° and a 0.6° overlap with its neighbors. The whole field of view is shifted across track by 12.6° away from the sun to minimize the impact of sun glint. OLCI is equipped with on-board calibration hardware based on sun diffusers. There are three sun diffusers--two 'white' diffusers dedicated to radiometric calibration and one dedicated to spectral calibration, with spectral reflectance features. The native resolution is approximately 300m, refered to as Full Resolution (FR). A Reduced Resolution (RR) processing mode provides Level-1B data at sampling rates decreased by a factor of four in both spatial dimensions resulting to resolution of approximately 1.2 km.

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21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSENTINEL-3A%2FOLCI%2FL3M%2FERR%2FKD%2F2022
21 OB.DAAC OPeNDAP Site for Sentinel-3A OLCI Standard Mapped Image (SMI) Product https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/opendap/S3OLCI/

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  • atmospheric-radiation
  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • ocean-optics
  • earth-science

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